Jim Croce Quiz

The solo studio albums of Jim Croce — a Villanova psychology graduate who drove trucks and worked construction between records, wrote songs about the people he met at truck stops, and had been a star for barely a year when his chartered plane came down in Louisiana in September 1973. Four albums, 1966 to 1973: a private pressing of five hundred copies funded by a wedding gift, the two that made his name, and one released three months after he died. Not counted here: the record he made as a duo with his wife Ingrid, which is why the numbers look short. It turns up as a wrong answer instead, alongside the thirty-odd live albums and greatest-hits collections that followed — a catalogue too small for the demand, repackaged ever since. Because there are four albums rather than five, this topic runs three modes rather than the usual five.